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Evaluation of Franz Marc’s Color Theory using Implicit Testing Procedures

2018

In the early 20th century, the German expressionist painter Franz Marc formulated assumptions concerning the meanings of color, based on his individual sensations. He characterized the ‘cool’ blue as the ‘masculine principle’. Yellow represented the ‘feminine principle’ which he declared as ‘gentle, cheerful, and sensual’. This leaves red, the color he perceived as ‘brutal and heavy’. Here, we tested some of the color–meaning associations assumed by Franz Marc via implicit measures based on response times, using Single Category Implicit Association Tests. The participants had to classify words as belonging to one of two semantic categories (e.g., masculine or feminine) by pressing one of tw…

Perspective on Curved Surfaces in the Age of Pozzo: The Nuova Pratica di Prospettiva of Paolo Amato

2016

The study focuses an almost unknown treatise on perspective, The Nuova Pratica di Prospettiva, written by the priest Paolo Amato (1634–1714) in the last years of his life and published posthumously in 1733. The main points of interest of the Nuova Pratica is the perspective projection on cylindrical surfaces, which exceeds the coeval ‘practical’ treatises on perspective. A detailed resume of Amato’s treatise is accompanied by geometric schemes illustrating the perspective method proposed by the author. None of the paintings made by Amato has come down to us, but the vault covering a hall added to a Norman church in Palermo shows a trompe l’oeil that was painted by one of his favorite discip…

<em>‘Una myga ymatge en paper, de ploma, de mà de Johannes‘.</em> La fugitiva sombra de Van Eyck en la Corona de Aragón a mediados del si…

2016

This paper analyses the mention of a quill drawing attributed to Van Eyck in a Valencian postmortem inventory, dated 1452. The properties belonged to Andreu Garcia, a priest well known in the historical record because of his connections with the most notable artists working in Valencia during the first half of the 15 th century. This reference compels a new examination of the ever more improbable presence of Van Eyck in Aragonese territories. It also offers a new insight into the early imprint of his paintings in these lands, given that the first owner of the drawing was the painter Berenguer Mateu (Jaume Mateu’s brother, likewise a prominent Valencian painter).

Sobre Herrera «El Viejo»

1996

In this article we introduce to the public knowledge a new collection of works by Francisco de Herrera, el Viejo, unknown until now, that enlarge considerably his catalogue. Within them we point out a set of architectural preparatory drawings for the gypsum-klin (yeserías) of the Convento de Santa Buenaventura in Sevilla, and also the discovery one architect's notebook that shows an important series of Sevillian designs. At the same time, we remark different aspects of his formation as painter, mentioning the possible influence of Pablo de Céspedes and some flemish masters like Martin de Vos, and we allude to the contacts, not referred until the present day, with Ribera and the young Alonso…

On the nature of the background behind Mona Lisa

2015

One of the many questions surrounding Leonardo’s Mona Lisa concerns the landscape visible in the portrait’s background: Does it depict an imagination of Leonardo’s mind, a real world landscape or the motif of a plane canvas that hung in Leonardo’s studio, behind the sitter? By analyzing divergences between the Mona Lisa and her Prado double that was painted in parallel but from another perspective the authors found mathematical evidence for the motif-canvas hypothesis: The landscape in the Prado version is 10% increased but otherwise nearly identical with the Louvre one, which indicates both painters used the same plane motif-canvas as reference.

Miguel del Prado, pintor de retablos en Valencia. Su fallecimiento en las Germanías (1521)

2017

Miguel del Prado, a painter who formed a company with Miguel Esteve in order to paint the now-lost Valencia town hall chapel in 1519, is an artist for whom there is scant documentary evidence. He has been identified with the anonymous Master of the Grifo, but this has been questioned recently. The author here offers news of a contract given to del Prado for an altarpiece in the Rosary Chapel of the old convent of Santo Domingo in Valencia that he was unable to fulfill due to his untimely death. It has been possible to certify that he perished on the battlefield of Almenara during the Germanias Revolt of 1521. Therefore the chronology for this painter has now been reduced by more than 16 yea…

Paintings as Solid Affective Scaffolds

2019

Los <i>Padres de la Iglesia</i> de Joaquín Oliet y la obra de Francisco de Goya

2008

The painter from Castellón, Joaquin Oliet Cruellas, carried out prolific mural decorations for various churches in Valencia, Alicante and Castellón in which his intense visual culture is evident. Especially interesting are the series of Fathers of the Latin Church painted for several of these churches, which display, with variants, compositions identical to those attributed to Francisco de Goya in Calatayud, Muel and Remolinos.<br><br>El pintor castellonense Joaquín Oliet Cruella realizó para diversas parroquias valencianas, castellonenses y alicantinas una prolífica decoración mural, en la que es palpable una intensa cultura visual. Especialmente interesante es la serie de Padr…

The beatles: tradition, avant-garde... and expressiveness

2019

Resumen: La música de The Beatles, tras su enorme éxito a través del tiempo, esconde diversos secretos que hunden sus raíces no solo en las tendencias coetáneas más evidentes -Pop Art, hippismo, cómic-, sino también en otras mucho más alejadas y sorprendentes que se refieren al manejo de las emociones, desde diversas herramientas armónicas procedentes de la música académica con la manifiesta influencia de las artes visuales, la pintura, la fotografía o la iconología sobre los álbumes del grupo. La continua búsqueda expresiva en The Beatles convirtió la música de la banda de Liverpool en una síntesis perfecta entre vanguardia y tradición a causa de la convergencia entre texto y sonido y, sob…

Scientific studies for the restoration of a wood painting of the Galleria Interdisciplinare Regionale della Sicilia—Palazzo Mirto di Palermo

2016

Abstract The Ritratto muliebre, referring to Venus, is a panel painting, oil on wood, attributed to unknown artist and probably dated to the second half of 16th century, today conserved in the Galleria Interdisciplinare Regionale della Sicilia—Palazzo Mirto of Palermo. The aim of this research was to assess the techniques used to decorate the wooden painting and to verify the state of conservation of the artwork's materials but also to identify the previous treatments. This study was the essential condition to plane and perform the correct restoration. For this reason, an integrated analytical approach based on the use of non-invasive and micro-invasive techniques was used, with the aim to …